Re: Correction please!

Subbarao Varigonda (varigond@cems.umn.edu)
Tue, 25 Feb 1997 17:16:38 -0600 (CST) 

If you don't like this to be discussed on telusa, may I request you to
give me your personal email?

> First there are several typos in the poem. Leaving them aside, 
> kavipravara as well as the other word (a typo again) are not to be 
> considered  two words. All samAsa's are to be considered single words. 

Could you tell me what kind of example you are expecting me to provide
in order to validate my point? I don't have a clear idea what you are
considering as incorrect in the statement I made!

Even within a samasam, I think I can find poems where both laghu and
guru are allowed to be taken for a preceding letter.
Or, in a non-samaasam, I can try to find a usage where precding letter is
taken as guruvu.
Is that what you are looking for from me? 

I have found a few more uses that take the letter before rEpha as guruvu after
a brief search on  the net! 
But they do fall under your samaasa criterian. I am giving a serious thought
to your samasa criterian.

> That removes a lot of confusion, I guess. sahajamagu prEma or 
> gaNapati brOchu in the above poem (after your correction) are distinctly 
> two words. Otherwise, ti in gaNapati will become guruvu again. 
> As Pillalamarri garu pointed out, the rules are mostly unambiguous. 

The rules are unambiguous! Quite right. That is my point too.
But does the rule allow freedom or not?

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sridhara Rao
> 

Could you evaluate the following statements please?
1. The letter preceding a non-repha dvitvaakshara of a new word can be 
   taken as laghu or guruvu.
   
2. The letter preceding any dvitvAkshara within the same word must be guruvu.
3. The letter preceding a repha dvitvaakshara of a new word can be taken as 
   laghuvu or guruvu.


depending on what you conider incorrect, I can look for that usage.


thank you.
subbarao

PS: R we getting too pedantic?!
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